Each student is required to complete and submit an original, scholarly research paper on a topic related to safety management.  For this assignment, you are to submit a paper as if it were going to be submitted to Professional Safety, Journal of the American Society of Safety Professionals.  Your submission should be worthy of submission to the journal, geared toward an appropriate audience and should be leading-edge work as indicated in the author guidelines.  In other words, don’t rehash things we already know in the field.  It should be new and worthy of advancing the field of occupational safety management. 
Although your paper should be worthy of publication, you are not required to submit your paper for publication.  You should view the following website prior to preparing your paper:
https://www.assp.org/publications/become-an-author/submit-to-psjLinks to an external site.
Students should use the Manuscript Guidelines for Professional Safety as a general guide for your paper assignment.  Your final paper should be between 8 pages (approximately 2500-3000 words), not including cover page, abstract, references, figures, etc.  As a course requirement, your submission should include at least 8 scholarly resources.
Your submission for this assignment must be submitted in APA format.  Papers must be submitted by the due date.  Late papers will not be accepted since the assignment was presented the first week of the semester.
Each student must submit and receive topic approval from the instructor by the end of Week 2.
You are not allowed to recycle or submit a paper or content that you have worked on previously and/or in another course.  Thus, do not self plagiarize.  Also, if you decide to change your topic, you must get approval before starting work on your new topic.  This project is not a group project and should be completed by you, the student, only. 
Final submissions will be checked for plagiarism, to include using tools available to the instructor, including software programs such as Turnitin and/or others available through Canvas.
Late papers will not be accepted. Papers must be submitted by Sunday, April 28, 2024.